StSanta F4U-1C guns

[Wardog]

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Well, the thing with the Hispanos is that it has more to do with muzzle velocity/less lead than it has with lethality when it comes to snapshots. Someone also mentioned that the reason the Hog C is so lethal is that the guns fire from *between* the two guns - i.e more concentrated fire in a small area. Something akin to only firing two guns, but at twice the ROF. Not sure this is true, a joke or what.
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Greets..

Citabria has been doing some evaluations on planes and found the cannons on F4U to be very close together. He emailed me this pic,ill let him explain it.

 

[Citabria]

its a minor thing to look at but if you notice the smoke trails the bullets are not coming out of the barrels.

they are coming out of the space in between the barrels. so in essence the f4u1c has only 2 20mm firing twice as fast as normal.

I dont know how much this affects long range dispersion but I think the effect would be exponential, hence the shells should be a little more dispersed than they are.

I dinae bout you guys but that bullet stream looks awfully dense.  



[This message has been edited by Citabria (edited 05-24-2000).]

[funked]

I think the amount of dispersion is enough to make the barrel-spacing error insignificant.

[Duckwing6]

pic not working ..

[Saintaw]

Yes it is, Duck Turn "Toggle images off" !

[Duckwing6]

All pictures working so far SAW .. only this one isnt .. hmm saved it to disk and looked at it with anoter programm and it worked ..

nevermind


[This message has been edited by Duckwing6 (edited 05-24-2000).]

[Citabria]

the pic is vry narrow only shows bullet stream duck,

look on left side and scroll  

[StSanta]

Aaah, thanks cit, now I remember that it was you who whispered this little secret into my ear  

Thanks a lot pal  

And thanks wardog for bringing it to my attention.
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[Vermillion]

Nice observation Citabria   I would never have noticed it myself.

But I do agree with Funked that I don't beleive it would make that much difference in the game. Get a to scale drawing of the Corsair and check the distances, that it is off, its literally a matter of inches.

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Vermillion
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[Citabria]

but look how much different the guns on the typhoon are due to placement.


its minor thing but it is there.

now that I know it's there it bugs me
(twitch)